One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heart-ache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty.
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The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
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